IBM Dashboard Application Services Hub, dashboard applications, Tivoli Authorization Policy Server, and IBM Cognos

The Dashboard Application Services Hub is a Jazz® for Service Management component. The Hub is an optional component for your environment that provides a web-based console component for common task navigation for products, aggregation of data from multiple products into a single view, and message passing between views from different products.

The IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring dashboard data provider retrieves monitoring agent data for display in the Dashboard Application Services Hub. The dashboard data provider is optionally enabled during the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server configuration. With the dashboard data provider enabled, Dashboard Application Services Hub users can retrieve read-only data from the hub monitoring server and monitoring agent for display in monitoring dashboards such as the IBM Infrastructure Management Dashboards for Servers or in custom dashboards. The IBM Tivoli Monitoring Authorization Policy Server can also be installed into the Dashboard Application Services Hub. The Authorization Policy Server allows you define roles and permissions, which control the access that dashboard users have to managed systems and managed system groups displayed in monitoring dashboards of the IBM Dashboard Application Services Hub. The tivcmd command line interface for Authorization Policy is used to connect to the Authorization Policy Server and create and work with the policies.

Dashboard Application Services Hub can also be used in conjunction with the IBM Cognos component of Jazz for Service Management to gather, analyze, and report important trends in your managed environment using historical data from the Tivoli Data Warehouse.

Install and configure IBM Dashboard Application Services Hub if you will be using monitoring dashboards in your environment. Check the user guides for the monitoring agents in your environment to determine if they provide a monitoring dashboard application. You can also use Dashboard Application Services Hub to create custom dashboard pages showing data from any monitoring agents in your environment. IBM Dashboard Application Services Hub is supported on 64-bit Windows, Linux®, and AIX® systems.